Between the snake’s health and no proper place near the restaurant to release the creature, the officer decided to bring it back to the humane society’s office in San Mateo and keep it overnight, Delucchi said.

The snake may have decided to slither into the bathroom because of the weather or because it was sick, Delucchi said. Gopher snakes occasionally show up in the humane society’s auditorium, he added.

On Wednesday, the snake was given a clean bill of health by humane society staff and released somewhere in San Mateo. Delucchi said the location wasn’t near a high-traffic area, homes or restaurants.

Intuitive Surgical paid $30.4 million in cash on March 5 for a more than three-decade-old building about two blocks from its current headquarters, which are on Kifer Road in Sunnyvale, according to Santa Clara County property records.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said in a letter sent Thursday to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone that the administration has failed to produce documents tied to Kushner and other officials despite requests from the committee since 2017.